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Meanings of glow worm in English

A firefly belonging to the Lampyris noctiluca species.

Synonyms
Examples for "glowworm"
Examples for "glowworm"
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Cap's cigarette shone like a glowworm in the shadow of the stack.
Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
2
It formed a queer spectacle, a glowworm creeping up on a bonfire.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
3
But a glowworm that lived in the cave made it all too bright.
The City and the World and Other Stories
4
The light at the nape of his neck made a glowworm of him.
The Cloister and the Hearth
5
It was no good-like trying to write by the light of a glowworm.
I capture the castle
Usage of glow worm in English
1
They're under threat by spiders and a white fungus that attacks glow worm pupae.
Radio NZ
2
The ceiling with its glow worm cages.
The windup girl
3
Damn the light; a glow worm would be better. There was a pause; then he slapped his leg.
Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains
4
We had everything when we opened except the Wairuru glow worm cave, which was opened two years later.
Radio NZ
5
It is like a star, but when it appears upon the deck it resembles more a glow worm.
The Irish Times
6
We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return.
My Discovery of England
7
So night after night, for weeks, the three boys saw the twinkling light of the glow worm on the dewy grass.
The Pearl Box / Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for You...
8
His description of the Battle of Waterloo is to "Ben-Hur's" chariot race what Mount Aetna in eruption is to a glow worm.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
9
It was on the Glow Worm River at the Clip Claw Hills.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 3
10
The glow worms twist and writhe overhead, sending out phosphorescent mating light.
The windup girl
11
They looked like two very luminous glow worms coming through the darkness.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
12
Her body twitches and jerks in the light of glow worms.
The windup girl
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We used to get glow worms for our meat.
Radio NZ
14
They were set in the face like little round glow worms in a mould of clay.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
15
It's strange He never thought of glow worms!
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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Projects include constructing a working hovercraft, cooking glow worms, molding dinosaur fossils, making electric Play-Doh and more.
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